Curves Complete - take two!

Do Over! It isn't often that life hands you a do-over for free! So when that happens, you really do your best to do it right the second time! I restarted my Curves Complete - I tried to restart Phase 1 last week, but when I went in and paid my $15 to restart, it took two days for the website to get reactivated and it turns out I am restarting the 90 days, all for the $15 fee (someone made a mistake). I decided I couldn't do 1200 calories two weeks straight, so around Wednesday or Thursday I started diving back into those darn Weight Watchers Ice Cream Bars! Honestly, I don't want them in my house. I asked my husband not to buy them, because I can't control myself, but he wants them for him (not that he needs them either!). I still lost 3.5 pounds last week, even though I wasn't totally on track with the plan, logging my calories, and following only the plan! I had a good day yesterday though, the last day of my start-up week! I started logging my feelings in the Food Notes section of My Fitness Pal. I read somewhere last week that if you can put something off till later it will help you curb the cravings. So when I was craving the chocolate ice cream bar, I decided I would wait until after dinner to have it. Then dinner was late and I decided I had made it that long without one, I could make it through the end of the day. Yay me! Also, last week I talked with Rene up at Curves Sherwood, and she IS A WONDERFUL COACH! Honestly, it would have been worth it to drive to Sherwood to have her as a coach. Some of the things she shared with me: * Talk nice to yourself. * Celebrate the positive. If you make it 1 day without cheating, make up some kind of reward. Celebrate making it 2 days without cheating, etc. * You have to get to the root of why you are eating. What is going on when want to eat something. Is it emotional eating? Stress eating? When in your life was that a coping mechanism. * Her analogy is if you have a lawn full of dandelions, you can mow the lawn (start a new diet and exercise program), but until you go out and get to the root of the weed and remove it, you will keep having dandelions coming up. * You can't control everything in your life. Not your co-workers, not your child, not your husband, not your job, etc. * When you eat as a coping mechanism for stress, you are letting others win. If someone gave you a bad day, they don't care if you go eat to cope with it. You are putting others in charge of your attitude and eating, not yourself.